Truth be told, I made a mouse in January, it turns out. I just didn’t quite get round to writing about it. I had some holiday to use up from last year so I ended up taking a fair amount of time off in January and February. And, seeing as I’d bought the mouse pattern months before, I thought I’d finally try and use it.

Reader, I am still terrible at sewing. It turns out that if you’re not very good at sewing, just never doing it doesn’t somehow make you better at sewing when the time comes. I made the dress too but it was all too exhausting to sew a button on, so it’s held closed with the ribbon. I think that my sewing machine needs tweaking though – the tension isn’t right and I can’t seem to fix it no matter what I do. I also made a ship’s sail for a model my partner is making, and in the end, I sewed the bigger seams on the hand cranked Singer and some detail by hand.

Anyway. This is what she looks like wearing a cardi, because of course you would wonder about it.

The pattern looks like it’s based on the Maileg Mouse but is nowhere near as cute – I assume for copyright reasons (!). I’ve honestly never met a Maileg toy I didn’t like. They absolutely have their aesthetic nailed. I can barely look at the website for how cute it all is.

Since then I’ve been knitting a few more toys for people – a lot of people at work are having babies.

These are two likely lads, before they got their faces. Both now have faces, but honestly I am not at all sure about the one in the red t-shirt. We’re 3 faces in, and I’m still not convinced. I might unpick it and give it another shot. Stay tuned…